Title: skip /wp-admin/*
Last modified: January 20, 2022

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# skip /wp-admin/*

 *  Resolved [wpshushu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpshushu/)
 * (@wpshushu)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wp-admin/)
 * Hi,
 * I’d like QM to run only on frontend pages, how to make it skip /wp-admin/*?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [John Blackbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbillion/)
 * (@johnbillion)
 * WordPress Core Developer
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wp-admin/#post-15271815)
 * You can conditionally call `define( 'QM_DISABLE', true )` in your wp-config.php
   file when the path matches `/wp-admin`, or you can call `do_action( 'qm/cease')`
   at some point in the admin area, eg in a mu-plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [wpshushu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpshushu/)
 * (@wpshushu)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wp-admin/#post-15272840)
 * [@johnbillion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbillion/)
 * This works
 *     ```
       add_action('plugins_loaded', function() {
       	do_action( 'qm/cease' );
       });
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [wpshushu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpshushu/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wp-admin/#post-15272840)
 * Status: resolved